Single-segment speed run of Mega Man X collecting no optional upgrades or hearts/sub tanks, done on March 18 2007. Available in five versions: low/normal quality DivX, and normal/high/low quality H.264 MPEG-4.

Author's comments:
Fastest completion and minimalist run. Means no upgrades or tanks more then necessary (Dash boots and X-buster given from Zero, (only)). A true speedrun done on an original SNES, normal Pad and cartridge (American version). A DVD recorder were used to record the run.

Speedrun history.

2004: September 26. Mike Uyama 37:26
2004: October 9 . Mike Uyama 36:10
2006: September 25. Freddy 'Frezy_man' Andersson 34:51
2007: Februar 11. Sattik 'Tiki' Ghosh 34:42
2007: Mars 18. Freddy 'Frezy_man' Andersson 34:09

I started played this game two, maybe three years ago. Very impressed over Uyama's 36:10 and 41:36 100% run. I never thought Mega man X should be done this fast. Its still far from a "dream run".

Anyway. The goal were to beat Tikis 34:42. I got 34:40 just after the run were posted on Thursday. On Sunday I got this one. I know I could get this time but I would be happy with 34:35 too. So This was like a bonus. A new strategy were to have the moust concentration on the boss fights becuse thats very important. I didn´t care very much for mistakes in the levels.

The route for the bosses in the run is Penguin, Kuwanger, Chameleon, Eagle, Mammoth, Mandrill, Armadrillo, Octopus. The time saver with this route is taking down Kuwanger really fast with the buster. Its hard and with bad luck your definately dying if you try to beat him fastest possible!

* A fast explanation in were the run can be a lot faster or more entertaining. More luck in the Kuwanger battle.
* More luck in the first Storm Eagle battle could give me almoust 10 seconds.
* More luck in the mini boss fight in Mandrills level.
* Jump over the small plattforms in the beginning of Sigma level 1 give you 5-10 seconds.
* The hack-glitch in Sigma level 1 before fighting Vile.
* Second fight with Chill penguin.
* Faster fight against final Sigma.

A fast explanation were I got lucky or parts I did very well.

* Chill penguin slide three times
* In general the first 9 levles were beaten very fast.
* Second Storm eagle battle
* No drain attacks from Octopus

In general the hole run were very lucky. From 34 minutes and lower you got to have a lots of luck. Pure gaming doesn´t always give you these times. Maybe you will even die.

* Intro stage:

running into the bees seems like the fastest strategy. This way you can shot the bees easily and loose the right ammount of life energy. You can´t kill the boss in the stage so he have to punch you down and catch you. when you have three bars left he catch you. And as you see. I have this much energy left after the second bee. You can also let one of the cars in the second part of the level push you all the way to the ship. It seems like the bee technique is a better option in a console speedrun.

I use to shot the bees much faster but something was wrong with my shooting here. The rest of the level were well done until the ship appear. The ship were located to much to the right and I were forced to blow the second car from the front instead. My shooting were not good and I loose a few seconds. But Vile catch me as fast as normal.

* Chill penguins:

Heh, I screw up on the little rabbit in the beginning and ten seconds before the dash capsule I screwed up a jump. Shit happens! Also the moment I missed the robot were shitty. If you noticed, I used some kind of "jumpglitch" wich means I can jump a lot higher if I run downwards anywere. But this is the only level I know you can save something on this glitch. The glitch exist in Mega Man X2 and X3 too.

The rest of the level were not smooth. See for yourself. But the boss fight is interesting. He dive three times. Normal is 5-6. So I got luck here. My play quality were good too. Much of the big blue charged one. If I knew I would slide this few I would probably give him more of the small dash pellets.

* Boomer Kuwanger:

Up to the laser everything goes well. The first hit were a mistake, the second one were on purpose. overall a smooth run here. The use of the ice doesn´t save time. Just make it easier in some spots.

The boss fight were good played I think. Fighting Kuwanger with the buster is new for me so I´m not an expert here. But I could get a lots of more luck. Its so damn beutiful when kuwanger doesn´t use his teleport technique. Like in the chill penguin fight I use bouth fully charged shots and not. The blue charge give three damage points. The green and the small pelets give one point, BUT two points if you dash (or dash jump) when you release the shots. Thats the technique I use. In other words. Green charges or the small normal shots - Its no difference.

* Sting chameleon:

Almoust Smooth run trough here. the boss fight is not very complicated either.

* Storm eagle:

This level is also close to a fucking multi segment part! The boss fight were unlucky though. The eagle dived from the air and thats bad for me. Loose a lots of important seconds here.

Maybe you wonder how I could knew wich direction he would come from the last attack? The SNES use left and right speakers. Its simple. I hear were he come from.

* Flame mammoth:

Like the sting chameleon stage. An easy part. I would like to do the Flame mammoth glitch. Jumping on the roof and hack half the level but SDAs rule do not accept that glitch so you got to watch a boring normal run trough here. I took one hit from the mammoth. But this was becuse I wanted to reach the centre of the screne. After the fight X always run to the centre anyway and steal seconds from my run.

* Spark mandrill:

My favorite, good running the hole level except from I got hit once in the end!

Miniboss: a random bitch, good gaming from my side here. But he could have been killed around 5 seconds faster with more luck.

Mandrill: Nae..OK gaming. Could have been better but I had bad luck with his movements. 5 seconds faster is a fast fight!

* Armored armadillo:

Good running again. Just before this attempt Tiki told me about how I should skip all the birds before the boss.

"- Jump like a maniac, no dash jumps and jump to the door after the last hammer bros". Thats what I did. Pretty cool.

I should have killed armadillo faster. But its just a few seconds of mistakes during the fight. Thats OK. I know you can hit Armadillo before he begin rolling with a spark ball. But I can´t get a hang of it. And hit him with the buster do not save time. (just 1 damage)

* Launch Octopus: I don´t know how to kill these sub tanks fastest possible. But I did it pretty well I guess.

And the giant snake in one shot!

Pretty fast boss fight here. Its a difficult fight in the run. My strategy is "hit him with all you got and don´t care very much if you got hit". works well this time too. I don´t have to wait for a drain attack either. Thats good.

When I was done with Octopus my time was around 20 minutes. For me this was one of the best times ever for sure. I knew about it and were nervous. The next half of the run were not as good as the first one. But still lucky.

* Sigma level 1:

When I cross the giant hole with these green small platforms I were careful. You can jump over them a lot faster and save 5-10 seconds or so. A risky stunt.

I take some damage before the fight with Vile. Like in the intro stage. This is faster. And I also skip the first scene were Vile and Zero have a dialouge. I did the glitch carefully. The secret is to not touch the floor in that room.

If you watched Tikis 34:42 you saw the awsome hack glitch during the fight with Vile and his robot. I never got a hang of it and never use it in this run. Maybe next time.

The fight with Vile could have been faster. I take damage too and thats NOT good if we take a look at the common bosses. thankfully I climb up to Kuwanger and fought him without taking damage, he tried to but I could dodge this time.

Like a chicken I picked up a hughe life filler before bospider. As you can see. That was a good decision. I was lucky to get the filler!

* Sigma level 2:

Chill penguin dives five times. Just a couple hits with the charged fire and one hit taken. Thats not very good. With some fucking luck this fight can be done a lot faster!

The robot is not a faster option.

I got luck in the fight with the eagle. He never leave the ground.

Good, lucky and careful Rangda banga fight!

* Sigma level 3:

No damage before Octopus is the way to go, the Spark mandrill fight were slow though. No drain attacks from octopus again. But I got two hits by his body so I had to take the filler before mammoth on a safety purpose. The D-rex fight were not good. I were close to die here too.

* Sigma level 4:

Velguarder were killed pretty fast and no damage taken. First Sigma fight were good. The final form is always risky. thankfully I survived. I were very nervous trough all the Sigma levels.

I want to give thanks to a lots of people.

* Tim Trygg - Introduced me to the game.

* Mikael Sjöberg - We played X togheter a lot.

* Nathan "Nate" Jahnke - Helped me to get a DVD recorder from USA. I´m from Sweden and normally we play the bad and slow PAL version of games. This is the faster NTSC verison. I had to have a TV wich support NTSC, an american SNES and cartridge and I had to buy the recorder from USA. Becude no DVD recorders around here can record NTSC.

* Mike Uyama - All his great runs give motivation. Hes old X runs were the first challenge to be get the best run. Also gave me a lots of information and tricks during the attempts.

* Sattik 'Tiki' Ghosh - Shaved off 9 seconds from my last run. That motivated me to, once again, pick up this wonderful game. Some new tricks were showed with his run. for Example. Skipp the birds in armadillos level, the new route and other strategys. I hope he will give us some killer runs in the future =)

* And other people out there involved in TAS runs and tricks. I can´t tell a specific person.

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